Monday, January 27, 2014

Media Bias in Utah’s News Running Rampant

There
is a reason our media lies to us. To generate poll results like the ones
released by Pew Research Center today:

Democrats are more willing to work with those across the aisle than Republicans, and they have a better understanding of the plight of the average American than those in the GOP, while Republicans are more extreme, a new poll finds.

Fifty-two percent of Americans say that Democrats are more willing to work with Republicans, while only 27 percent think Republicans are willing to work with Democrats, according to the latest poll from the Pew Research Center, taken Jan. 15-19 of 1,504 adults.

The same percentage said that Democrats are more concerned with the needs of people like themselves, compared to only 32 percent who said the same of those in the GOP.

The positions of Republicans are also considered more extreme by 54 percent to 35 percent than those of the Democrats, and the Democrats operate in a more honest and ethical way, 41 percent to 31 percent, while 28 percent say that neither party excels in honesty and ethical behavior. -1

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In
reality, Republicans are alienating their own base while they bend over
backward to give the Democrats absolutely everything that they could ever want.
The idea that Democrats would be honest, or concerned about me is a joke. I mean,
these guys are using the IRS as a weapon against dissent, they have grown domestic
spying programs, and their spending bills take money out of our pockets to put
it into the pockets of multi-billion dollar organizations such as GE, Goldman
Sachs, Solyndra (who took the money and ran), and of course countless Unions,
and Planned Parenthood, all of whom contribute that money right back to
Democratic coffers. Catch that? They take your money, redistribute it to
Democrat donors, who then donate the money to the Democrats. Democrats honest?
Please.

However,
GOP leadership has done nothing to
counter this narrative. In fact, they have done more to shoot themselves in the
foot by bashing their own base voter, trying to win points from a bias media,
owned and operated by… Democrats.

Today,
Utah’s Channel 2 had their bias on full display. Senator Rand Paul rightly chastised
the Democratic narrative that we have a “war on women,” pointing out that the
Democrats aren’t exactly paragons of virtue when it comes to how women are
treated, and pointing out, rightly, that President Bill Clinton was well known
for taking advantage of young, vulnerable women, most notoriously the Monica
Lewinski scandal.

Channel 2
laughed it off, and then laughed off Sen. Paul, saying, “well the Paul family
is no stranger to controversy.” Oh, really? Enlighten me. Senator Paul once filibustered
to get answers about whether or not the
administration felt it a viable option to use Drones against American citizens.
Seems like a reasonable question to me. What wasn’t reasonable was Obama’s
stalling on the answer.

Of course
Obama’s unconstitutional use of executive orders to end run Congress should be
a concern. That behavior is extreme to me, especially since Congress keeps caving
in to Obama. Spending us off a cliff as recklessly and irresponsibly as the
Democrats have seems extreme to me. Calling dissent, “racist, bigot, homophobe,”
until the decenter shuts up seems extreme to me. Sicking the IRS on dissenters
who don’t shut up is remarkably fascistic… Yet all that seems as lost on Utah’s
left wing nutty media as it is on the so called “main stream media.”

Nevertheless,
don’t count on the Media narrative to change, or suddenly become more honest.
The pew polls I quoted earlier today are a clear indication that the old axiom
of repeat a lie enough and it becomes the truth has proven… well true. The GOP’s
only hope for 2014 rests in the hands of its base voter, and given that 2012
wasn’t about beating Obama, it was about beating the GOP’s own base, don’t
count on the Tea Party Cavalry riding in to save the day.

About Me

I am a Libertarian leaning Conservative in the vein of Hans Herman Hoppe, and FA Hayek. I am the author of "The Great Compromise: Getting Past The Emotional Nonsense Dividing America." I am absolutely opposed to government growth and interference in free markets. However I am not fanatical about my beliefs and in fact try my best to approach politics with a "moderate tone." I like to write about religion, entertainment and politics and write material designed to encourage individualism, entrepreneurship and free market solutions to solve the problems our State and Federal governments keep creating.